Wasn’t that the UI overhaul that started with win8 and persists to a lesser degree to this day? It’s impossible to make an UI that works efficiently for both desktop and tablet. They’re two different platforms that are operated in different ways, and as such different UI designs are needed.
If so, I’d say it couldn’t have been done “right” by anyone else either, as it seems that a core element of its design is to make information as vague and short as possible, while padding it with a lot of dead space.
Example, if I want to change the thingamajig-ratio of the skoodleblurp, utilizing the brumblebork method:
Linux: skoodle -s thinga 50 (brumblebork is assumed by default unless something else is explicitly defined via --method=)
msdos 6.0: skoodleb /thing 50 /brumblebork
win95: can’t do that
win2k: after right clicking my computer it’s a setting hidden somewhere in the hardware tab
win98: same as win2k, except a reboot is required
XP: same as win2k, except a defrag is required
win vista: back to rebooting
win 7: finally they made it an easily accessible thing in the control panel
win 8: uh oh, the control panel of ye olden days is no more. We have a new thing going, so there are two way of doing it. The newer method isn’t quite as flexible as the control panel.
win 8.1: They fixed the new panel, but you can’t fit it on a single screen due to excessive dead space padding. And sometimes you get told to contact the sysadmin. For your computer. That you own.
Win 10: It fits on one screen now, you just have a million sub-menus to navigate through; control panel -> network -> advanced -> skoodleblurp -> advanced -> thingamajig -> advanced (yep, again) -> ratio slider -> apply -> OK -> submit -> execute -> “are you sure?” -> (three minutes of that spinning circle that replaced the hour glass) -> Fuck, you forgot to check the brumblebork box half an hour ago
Win 11: you have to log in to support.microsoft.com with your Microsoft account and hope it has detected that you are running an OS that supports this. Then you can download a service patch that may or may not be relevant. Either way it changes your default search to Bing.
I think I got a bit carried away there… but my point still stands. It was an awful design choice, and the awfulness was part of its core functionality.
Hmm… In my mostest most humblest of opinions, no, you didn’t get carried away. You explained it in just the right amount. Maybe even stopped too soon, would have loved the version for Mac.
Wasn’t that the UI overhaul that started with win8 and persists to a lesser degree to this day? It’s impossible to make an UI that works efficiently for both desktop and tablet. They’re two different platforms that are operated in different ways, and as such different UI designs are needed.
If so, I’d say it couldn’t have been done “right” by anyone else either, as it seems that a core element of its design is to make information as vague and short as possible, while padding it with a lot of dead space.
Example, if I want to change the thingamajig-ratio of the skoodleblurp, utilizing the brumblebork method:
I think I got a bit carried away there… but my point still stands. It was an awful design choice, and the awfulness was part of its core functionality.
You missed
winMe: you can’t change the thing because the OS already crashed.
Thanks for reminding me of that abomination. I edited in my own take on that inOperable System
Hmm… In my mostest most humblest of opinions, no, you didn’t get carried away. You explained it in just the right amount. Maybe even stopped too soon, would have loved the version for Mac.